Chinless squatting dwarf
Chinless squatting dwarf
Chinless squatting dwarf
Chinless squatting dwarf
Chinless squatting dwarf
Chinless squatting dwarf

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East-West Artwalk
Haskell Education Center

Chinless squatting dwarf,

ca. 1000–800 BCE

Olmec style
Middle Formative Period
y1980-7

Information

Title
Chinless squatting dwarf
Dates

ca. 1000–800 BCE

Medium
Volcanic stone
Dimensions
13 × 12.4 × 7.3 cm (5 1/8 × 4 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds given by the estate of Pamela Lawrence Pieters in memory of F. Vinton Lawrence, Jr., Class of 1926
Object Number
y1980-7
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Veracruz, Gulf Coast

Culture
Olmec
Period
Middle Preclassic
Type
figurines
Materials
volcanic rock, stone
Subject
dwarfs, figures (representations)

[Antiques Gregoire, New York, NY]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 1980.

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